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Publication Date: 2019-Oct
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The Coming Revolution in Physics Education
Flannery, William
Physics Teacher, v57 n7 p493-497 Oct 2019
This paper describes a high school or introductory university course in scientific programming that introduces the computer revolution into the physics curriculum at the beginning. In the first one-hour lecture, Euler's method is presented and used to compute a solution to the analytically unsolvable two-body problem. In the remainder of the course a variety of physical systems are modeled and analyzed to demonstrate the remarkable power and wide range of applicability of the method.
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Physics, Secondary School Science, High Schools, College Science, Programming, Educational Technology, Computer Uses in Education, Computation, Problem Solving, Teaching Methods
American Association of Physics Teachers. One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740. Tel: 301-209-3300; Fax: 301-209-0845; e-mail: pubs@aapt.org; Web site: http://aapt.scitation.org/journal/pte
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Secondary Education; High Schools; Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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